Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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the large home consumption is an in
dustry talked up by some of Walla
Walla's CIV. T. moneyed men.
Fifteen million dollars is the sum
stated to have been invested in cattle of
all kinds in Idaho during the past three
years.-Fdrnl. Field and Stockmdn.
The registration at Leavenworth,
Kan, reached 1000, of which 2,67S
were women; 617 of these were col
Ored. At Parsons $50 women regis
tered and / ,48S men.
The ten leading wholesale fish
firms of Buffalo, n. Y, have CONSOLE
dated into single company to be known
as the Buffalo Fish Company, with a
capital stock of 100000.
The Grand canyon. about twenty
miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona Ter
ritory, is described rs one of the grand.
est pieces of scenery in the world. sur
passing, it is claimed. the Yellowstone
Park or the Yosemite valley.
The journal does not vouch for the =
story, but it is said that gentleman of
Boston, who has dog in bingham. had
him brought to telephone in the latter
place, and when his master in Boston
called him the dog went wild with de-
light.
"A tramp who was fed at Middle
town, n. Y, the other day. was actually
hungry, and ate what was given him
on the premises. He devoured six
grandmother" slices of bread, one
pound of beef steak. two cups of tea
and pie.-BoSton Globe.
The three signs of counterfeit
coin are not often needed by a careless
public. A bad piece of silver has
hollow ring or a light weight or an i'm
perfect rim. If these characteristics
were fully learned cOunterfeiters would
soon be discouraged in trying to pass
imperfect money.
dying at the age of hundred and
three years, Uncle Sam Matney, of
Jess Valley, Cal, turned to his friends
and said: Il haven't been very bad
man. l never did any thing worse
than kill Indians, and L don't believe
that will be held against me. had to
do it. "-ChicagO Herald.
The stocks of cheese in Britain and
in this country are estimated at about
10000 boxes, or 200,O boxes less
than last year. Stocks have not been
so small since 1884, when the price
was half cent higher per pound than
now. The stocks then were about
$4,000 boxes less than they are this
year.
In order to test his clerks honesty
a Philadelphia storekeeper occasionally
left one dollar bills lying about at night
The other morning the merchant went
to look for one of the bills and found It
nailed to the floor with half a dozen
spikes. Hereafter the storekeeper will
keep his money in his pockets or in the
till Chicago Tribune.
james Blaikie, of st. Paul, has
very fine cat's-eye stone which was
once the property of George IL, of
England. The ring came into the pos
session of Blaikie's family by legal pro-
cess, together with star and garter
set with the same stones, and at one
time the property of the English mon=
arch.-Chicaqo Inter- Ocean.
In the United States there are 2,269
breweries. which produce annually
400, 1872, 400 gallons, or over seven gal
Ions per head. In Germany there are
23,94O breweries, which now produce
annually 90O,OOO,O00 gallons, or over
20 gallons per head. In Great Britain
there are 20, breweries, which pro-
duce annually 1850, 00O,0 900 gallons, or
over 80 gallons per head.
Mr. J. w. Walker has discovered
~, tho co,,tb ciHa Of Pine Maintain,
Georgia, nearly two hundred feet above
the famous corundum mine, site
where the ancient inhabitants of that
region manufactured their tale vessels
for cooking. Evidence of the use of
stone implements in the work are indu-
bitable. The vessels were blocked out
and followed before being broken from
the ledge.
From the infrequency with which
insect-eating birds attack conspicuous
insects it is supposed by entOmolOgists
that such insects are unpalatable; but
if this be true, their disagreeable taste
does not always afford protection, for
Mr.. Z. B. Poulton, of the London FOOL
ogical Society, has observed that birds
will devour them under the influence
of extreme hunger. Nevertheless, the
rule seems to be that large and prom
inently marked and colored insects are
the least liable to destruction by birds-
N. y Ledger.
When w. G. Browning, of last
Greenwich, r. l., went To feed his cow
the other morning she was not in her
accustomed stall. He had found the
barn door locked, and was at a loss TO
know what had been become of her
After an unsuccessful search about the
premises he went up to the hay loft for
hay for his horse, and there stood the